'HIV was invented as the cause of AIDS to get research money,' claims radio host

A Christian extremist radio host has made the astonishing claim that ‘HIV does not cause AIDS’.

Bryan Fischer, Director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association, told listeners of his Focal Point radio show: ‘The reason HIV was invented as the cause of AIDS is it was a way to get research money.’

He claimed that this is the way to get ‘big bucks to fund your laboratories’.

He continued: ‘If AIDS is caused by behaviour, there's no money in that because you just tell people, “Hey, stop doing the behaviour.” So that's why they have to find some bug that they can blame it on… “We’ve got to kill this thing, we need billions of dollars of research.”

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Extreme: Bryan Fischer told his listeners that HIV does not cause AIDS

‘So we’re chasing after this thing that even if we got it and neutralised it, it wouldn’t do a solitary thing to stop the AIDS epidemic.’

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He told MailOnline: 'You know this is nonsense. This is dangerous nonsense.

Claim: Fischer says that researchers link HIV to AIDS to get hold of 'big bucks'

‘The proof of the impact of research is what it has done for people with HIV. It’s stopped millions from dying a horrible death.

‘Those who have decided that it is harmless and stopped taking anti-HIV drugs have died. Those who have taken them have survived.

‘He wouldn’t be saying the same thing about cancer research. Is it because AIDS affected gay men first?'

Jonathan Ball, Professor of Molecular Virology at Nottingham University, meanwhile, said that the argument that HIV doesn't cause AIDS is an extremely weak one - and an immoral one.

He said: 'The arguments used by those who claim HIV doesn’t cause AIDS are flimsy to say the least when viewed against the contrary body of epidemiological, scientific and medical evidence available.

'If untreated, more than 95 per cent of people with HIV infection will develop AIDS within 10 years - fact.'

Addressing why some people with HIV don't go on to develop AIDS, Professor Ball explained that a minority have an inherent resistance that slows down the damaging effects of the virus.

However, he added: 'To perpetuate an ill-founded belief, that is simply unsupported by scientific evidence is immoral.

'It is important that we use the weight of scientific and medical evidence to quash misinformation and deceit. Without doubt, HIV infection causes AIDS - a wide impacting and tragic disease that causes immeasurable suffering worldwide.'

Fischer’s comments came during an interview with Peter Duesberg, author of Inventing The AIDS Virus.

Duesberg told Fischer that half of AIDS patients are ‘male homosexuals, not your All American male homosexual from next door, but the one who cruise’

He said: ‘They have thousands of sexual contacts in a short time – and they can only accomplish that, like our Olympians break records now in the Olympics, by taking tons of drugs.’

Duesberg's research paper arguing that there's no proof of HIV causing AIDS was last month published in the peer-reviewed Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology.

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'HIV does not cause AIDS' says Bryan Fischer on Focal Point radio show